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  Thread: Victoria Park
Post: RE: Victoria Park

danbrotherston Wrote: (01-03-2024, 06:06 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (01-03-2024, 03:26 PM) -- Except your adopted country does this all the time: modal filters. It reduces traffic, slows speeds, but at ...
  jwilliamson Sports and Recreation 108 71,041 03-02-2024, 10:30 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Bytor Wrote: (11-28-2023, 03:16 PM) -- plam Wrote: (11-27-2023, 03:02 PM) -- Yes, seems like a much better schedule than what was proposed and almost all better than what there is now. -- The only...
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,192 11-29-2023, 12:13 AM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero

ijmorlan Wrote: (11-28-2023, 09:12 PM) -- jwilliamson Wrote: (11-28-2023, 02:21 PM) -- Do you mean 5m from the intersection? -- No, 50m, although I didn’t actually calculate the number. The idea i...
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 583 182,021 11-29-2023, 12:10 AM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero

ijmorlan Wrote: (11-27-2023, 08:29 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (11-27-2023, 05:06 AM) -- The far-smaller number that have functional buttons have no signage, I think. And maybe that should be added to mak...
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 583 182,021 11-28-2023, 02:21 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

I just tried to use a GRT day pass, and the system seems designed to be impossible to use. They are not sold online through the website; you need to buy them in person. A single EasyGO card can only h...
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 4,282 3,205,601 10-14-2023, 09:33 AM
  Thread: Elevate Condos (1333 Weber St E) | 15, 15, 12 & 12 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Elevate Condos (1333 Weber St E) | 15, 15, 12 ...

panamaniac Wrote: (07-09-2023, 04:16 PM) -- KevinL Wrote: (07-09-2023, 12:11 PM) -- Yeah, 'the stump' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Adelaide_Centre#First_tower_proposal) was a big embarrassment...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 216 87,324 07-09-2023, 08:09 PM
  Thread: Vogue Residences (née District Condos) | 21 + 14 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vogue Residences (née District Condos) | 21 + ...

Agree. It's quite an attractive building.
  jwilliamson University Area 226 199,610 07-07-2023, 03:31 PM
  Thread: 6 - 14 Dietz Avenue North | 13 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 6 - 14 Dietz Avenue North | 13 fl | Proposed

The trilateral symmetry at 170 is cool. I think this looks OK. The solid wall massing is fine IMO, the colours are arranged in a comprehensible pattern, and a few town houses in the base will be fi...
  jwilliamson Suburbs 5 871 07-06-2023, 10:22 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News

The Chainsaw building is up for lease again.
  jwilliamson Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,285 2,009,457 07-05-2023, 10:32 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero

I was sitting on Larch St the other day and noticed a bunch of the pavers were heaving and cracking. Seems like a pretty serious flaw if they need to be replaced after only a year.
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 583 182,021 06-09-2023, 09:57 PM
  Thread: General Sports and Recreation News
Post: RE: General Sports and Recreation News

The new Alexandra Park opened up today. It's really nicely done with a great playground.
  jwilliamson Sports and Recreation 274 303,646 06-09-2023, 09:54 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero

We have lots of discussions on this site about improving stroads by making them more street-like, but the other aspect of the stroad framework is identifying which routes should be roads, and making t...
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 583 182,021 06-06-2023, 01:17 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

tomh009 Wrote: (05-06-2023, 09:07 PM) -- Yes, the constitution can be amended, in principle. The last two attempts both failed, though, and the current odds of a successful amendment are very long gi...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 1,223 973,243 05-07-2023, 11:57 AM
  Thread: 81-85 Bridgeport Road East | 16-27 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 81-85 Bridgeport Road East | 16-22 fl | Propos...

westwardloo Wrote: (04-26-2023, 08:24 AM) -- ac3r Wrote: (04-25-2023, 05:34 PM) -- This has been sent to the OLT: https://www.therecord.com/local-waterloo/news/2023/04/24/what-s-going-on-here-propos...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 65 12,168 04-27-2023, 02:30 PM
  Thread: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C

Why do they insist on painting everything grey? If they need to use 4 different colours, couldn't they at least choose some that aren't grey?
  jwilliamson Suburbs 40 8,535 04-25-2023, 06:54 PM
  Thread: General Retail News
Post: RE: General Retail News

Old Goat Books in Uptown has a new owner. There had been an announcement that they were closing, but they will remain open.
  jwilliamson Retail 983 875,798 04-01-2023, 11:37 AM
  Thread: Westmount Place (50 Westmount N, 9-15 Dietz N, 192-218 Erb W) | 11-25 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Westmount Place (50 Westmount N, 9-15 Dietz N,...

There's a large concrete pour happening today. Two boom pumps and the crane were all working when I biked past.
  jwilliamson Suburbs 103 52,509 03-11-2023, 10:59 AM
  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C

They're putting the crane up now.
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 573 128,548 02-25-2023, 11:34 AM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero

There was a paper published a few years ago showing that increasingly strict car seat requirements in the States have been a significant drag on the number of families that have a third child. http...
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 583 182,021 01-10-2023, 10:46 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

ac3r Wrote: (01-07-2023, 04:58 PM) -- So the trains are garbage as well as the engineering. No surprise given that they were from Bombardier and overall the project leaders tried to save every cent t...
  jwilliamson Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,192 01-08-2023, 01:57 AM
  Thread: General University Area Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours

There's construction fencing up around 56 and 58 Marshall with a sign advertising "Novo Condos". Their website is primesky.ca
  jwilliamson University Area 400 444,578 12-31-2022, 02:11 PM
  Thread: 10 Duke St W | 45 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 10 Duke St W | 45 fl | Proposed

taylortbb Wrote: (12-23-2022, 02:13 PM) -- jwilliamson Wrote: (12-22-2022, 10:20 PM) -- The tower is narrower than my finger at the podium and significantly wider than my finger at the top, so it's ...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 43 9,150 12-23-2022, 08:59 PM
  Thread: 10 Duke St W | 45 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 10 Duke St W | 45 fl | Proposed

taylortbb Wrote: (12-22-2022, 07:50 PM) -- jwilliamson Wrote: (12-20-2022, 04:22 PM) -- What sort of perspective draws farther away, less interesting features larger than nearer, more interesting on...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 43 9,150 12-22-2022, 10:20 PM
  Thread: 10 Duke St W | 45 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 10 Duke St W | 45 fl | Proposed

KevinL Wrote: (12-20-2022, 03:07 PM) -- It looks like the roofline is trapezoidal in the render due to how perspective gets played with on a building this tall. It's still rectangular. -- What sort...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 43 9,150 12-20-2022, 04:22 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...

ac3r Wrote: (12-19-2022, 06:29 PM) -- jwilliamson Wrote: (12-19-2022, 11:49 AM) -- Honestly, losing the train station might not be a bad thing. $100 million is way too much to pay for a small statio...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 133 29,347 12-20-2022, 01:51 AM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

CP42 Wrote: (12-19-2022, 12:53 PM) -- jwilliamson Wrote: (12-19-2022, 12:47 PM) -- Maybe? I couldn't find a thread for it. -- https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=1600 -- T...
  jwilliamson Urban Areas 1,223 973,243 12-19-2022, 01:55 PM

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